Maximum Accessibility: Making Your Web Site More Usable for Everyone

Foreword

Accessibility and usability are two tightly intertwined concepts. The first important relationship is that increased accessibility for users with disabilities almost always leads directly to improved usability for all users. Guideline number one for all user interface design has always been simplicity. This is true whether designing for blind users, old users, children, international users, mobile users, soldiers on the battlefield, or even the average business executive accessing a Web site or the company intranet on a laptop over a slow modem line from a hotel room during a business trip. Simplicity helps everybody.

Going beyond simplicity, the primary goal of the specific accessibility guidelines discussed in this book may be to help ...